Unlikely. Stations are licensed by the FCC for a specific power on a specific frequency, and getting approval for more power is almost unheard of since they'll always be stepping on someone else's toes.
They're spending small fortunes to buy new transmitters, and it seems unlikely they'll buy one that only outputs a fraction of what they're approved for, then buy another one next year. Sometimes stations can improve coverage by leasing/building better transmitter antennas (location, altitude, polarization, etc.). More likely *receivers* will improve, digging more signal out of the background noise. And people will learn to set up the picky antennas better. i.e., pointing it right _here_ for this channel, and pointing it right _here_ for another. On Jan 8, 2008 4:57 PM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Digital TV doesn't carry as far as analog. We get ZERO channels using > >the digital tuners. > > A few months back I saw a chart of the power used for the different > channels. In almost all cases the power on the HD channels was much less > than for the old analog channels. Perhaps when they drop analog, the > power on the digital channels will be increased? > > In the days before cable and even now when cable does not carry all > digital channels there is a good reason for the station to make their > power as high as possible. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
